Abstract
In this article, we explore the teaching of post-qualitative methodology within what Deleuze called a “Control Society.” We offer up the online video series Three Minute Theory, specifically the video What are Societies of Control? as an example of our engagement with post-qualitative theories and methodologies. We posit that post-qualitative methodology repurposes the tools of a control society and for that reason is both needed and necessary for making sense of the world we live in. We begin by providing an overview of a control society. Next, we provide “outtakes” from the video script that serves to illustrate the process of producing a pedagogical product, highlights our collaborative writing process, and provides additional examples of control societies. Then, we discuss our pedagogical considerations when making the video, including the importance of a controlling metaphor and the creation of a “writerly text” that would allow our audience/students to use as an impetus for creation rather than as a source to be reproduced. Finally, we provide examples of the ways in which post-qualitative methodologies align with control societies and the possibilities this presents for researchers.
Highlights
In the Spring of 2013, while pursuing doctoral degrees in education, the three of us took a new qualitative research course being offered in our department called “New Materialisms/New Empiricisms.”
Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology 2020, 11(2) https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/rerm was in this course and through the completion of this collective biography that the three of us decided to form a writing group and to forgo the traditional qualitative sequence of coursework being offered by our college that would lead to a certificate in qualitative methodology and which would set us up with potential teaching positions in the field of qualitative research methodology
In our desire to do something new in qualitative research and teacher education, we took a wide range of courses on diverse topics including: post-structuralism, feminism, Marxism, Foucault, rhetoric, geography of thought, sovereignty, critical geography and education, and a special course on Deleuze and Guattari’s (1980/1987) A Thousand Plateaus
Summary
Is the introduction to our Three Minute Theory video What are Societies of Control? (Kerr, Adams & Pittard, 2015) (SoC hereafter): In this edition of three-minute theory, we provide an entré into what philosopher Gilles Deleuze called “Societies of Control.” This concept is useful in considering and questioning how control, freedom, and our orientation to control and freedom function within an increasingly interconnected, technological, and surveilled world. (Kerr, Adams & Pittard, 2015) (SoC hereafter): In this edition of three-minute theory, we provide an entré into what philosopher Gilles Deleuze called “Societies of Control.” This concept is useful in considering and questioning how control, freedom, and our orientation to control and freedom function within an increasingly interconnected, technological, and surveilled world. We might understand societies of control as an evolving form of discipline that moves outside of enclosed structures into a network of sophisticated, entangled systems(I really like this sentence). (Love this last sentence) This type of discipline created docile and compliant workers who (security cameras at red lights) For this to make more sense though, let’s first talk about Foucault’s description of disciplinary societies - an idea upon which Deleuze extends and adds. As we show in this article, was a constant issue for us, but a challenge that we embraced as part of learning
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